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...Energy Commission, where he is microfilming top secret documents for a foreign spy ring. When the FBI gets on his trail, he flees to New York, kills a Government agent in a chase to the top of the Empire State Building, and is about to escape overseas on a freighter when his conscience rather abruptly gets the better of him, and he voluntarily gives himself...
...winter of 1929, when Manning was first officer of the old America, his ship came upon the Italian freighter Florida, wallowing helplessly on her beam ends in the stormy mid-Atlantic with a parted rudder chain. Manning volunteered to take a lifeboat with seven men across a quarter-mile of raging, ice-strewn seas to rescue the Italian crew. The 32 men were saved. On his return to New York, he was given a hero's welcome, a ticker-tape parade and a banquet...
...unkindest blow of all. Shamefacedly Economic Affairs Minister Eric Louw told the South African Parliament that one European black-marketeer, working through a Swiss bank and with a forged Lloyd's certificate that his bags had been inspected and approved, loaded a million bags aboard a British freighter at Genoa. When the bales were unwrapped at Durban, they proved to be full of rags. The swindler, admitted Minister Louw, got away with $700,000 of the government's money...
...more than three days, the North Atlantic seemed to give up to Captain Kurt Carlsen and his crippled Flying Enterprise. The British tug Turmoil plowed homeward through a placid sea, her five-inch steel towline dragging the wallowing Flying Enterprise. Aboard the listing Isbrandtsen freighter, Carlsen and Mate Kenneth Dancy of the Turmoil settled down for the trip into Falmouth. People all over the world read the headlines, and hoped...
Mortal Remains. Speculating on what actually happened to the bones, American scientists remembered still another theory: they had gotten as far as Tientsin, where they were loaded on a lighter for transfer to an offshore freighter. The lighter capsized and the precious boxes either sank or drifted away...